every man for himself
Translations
  • French: chacun pour soi; sauve qui peut
  • German: jeder ist sich selbst der Nächste
  • Italian: ognun per sé, il primo prossimo è sé medesimo
  • Portuguese: salve-se quem puder, cada um sabe de si
  • Russian: ка́ждый са́м за́ себя́
  • Spanish: sálvese quien pueda, cada palo que aguante su vela
Adjective

every man for himself

  1. selfish
    I quit show business because there was too much of an every-man-for-himself attitude going on.
    There was an every-man-for-himself attitude during the time of the Great Depression in 1930s America.



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